Finding Information on
Ireland

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This guide lists books, article databases and recommended Web sites to save you time and effort in researching Ireland.  This guide was initially designed for an ACC International Studies course. Consult a librarian for advice at any time.

We also highly recommend consulting these ACC Library research guides:
          - Finding Information on Archaeology and Anthropology,
          - Travel Destinations: Books & Articles, and Travel Destinations: Web Sites. 

Books & Videos:                                      ACC Library Web page > Finding Books

To find books and multimedia items, use the online catalog. The ACC Library offers more then 170 books on Ireland. To find books on two overlapping topics, use the Boolean search word and.

Ireland	Ireland guidebooks	Ireland antiquities	Celts
Ireland history	Ireland Archaeology	Prehistoric atlases	Joyce, James

Reference books: Main floor

These reference books will help you start your research:

Encyclopedia of Ireland : an A-Z guide to its people, places, history, and culture
Ref. DA906 .E53 2000

James Joyce A to Z : the essential reference to the life and work
Ref. PR6019.O9 Z533376 1995

These are useful for current political and cultural information on Ireland:

World Almanac	REFERENCE AY 67.N5 W7 2003
Lands and Peoples (vol. 1-6 plus index)	REFERENCE G 133 .L3 1997
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures & Daily Life	REFERENCE GN 333 .W67 1998
Statesman's Year-book (country information)	REFERENCE JA 51 .S7 2003

These reference books have archaeology and anthropology information on Ireland:

Oxford companion to archaeology	REF. CC 70 .O96 1996
Archaeological method and theory : an encyclopedia	REF. CC 75 .A654 2000
Encyclopedia of archaeology: The great archaeologists	REF. CC 110 .E54 1999
World atlas of archaeology	REF. G 1046 .E15 W6 1985
Past worlds : the Times atlas of archaeology	REF. G 1046 .E15 P3 1988
Encyclopedia of human evolution and prehistory	REF. GN 281 .E53 2000
The dictionary of anthropology	REF. GN 307 .D48 1997
Encyclopedia of cultural anthropology (vol. 1-4)	REF. GN 307 .E52 1996

Gale Virtual Reference Library:

This database offers full-text chapters from over 250 reference books, including Countries and their Cultures and Geo-Data. (The ACC Library owns many of these reference books in printed format also.) Go to: ACC Library Web page > Finding Books > Reference > Gale Virtual Reference Library. Note: This is a subscription database. ACC students, faculty and staff may log in from off-campus with their campus network user names and passwords.

Articles and Article Databases:

The ACC Library subscribes to these anthropology and archaeology journals, located in the Periodicals area on the main floor of the library: National Geographic, Anthropology  Newsletter, Cultural Anthropology, Antiquity and Archaeology. 

Use online article databases to locate articles. Which you use depend on your topic. Consult a librarian for recommendations. From the ACC Library's Web page, go to:
• Under Finding Articles, click on General Databases or Subject Databases.
• To search these databases from home, follow screen directions to log in.

General Databases include:
● Academic Search Premier: Good place to start. Over 8000 journals are indexes; more than half are full-text.
● WilsonSelectPlus: Completely full-text, with 1.1 million articles since 1994 from 1400 journals.
● JSTOR: full-text; 117 journals covering the arts, sciences and social sciences.
● New York State Newspapers: includes New York Times full-text.
● New York TImes, Opposing Viewpoints, CQ Researcher, more.

Country Information:

These sites give valuable background, travel, news and health information. Just choose or search for "Ireland" in each.

CIA's World Factbook	https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
Country Studies (from Library of Congress)	http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
The Travel Channel (see Destination Guides)	http://travel.discovery.com
InfoNation	http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation3/menu/advanced.asp
Site displays charts comparing statsitics for up to six countries. Choose areas to compare; at blank graph, choose statistics to compare from drop-down menus. From United Nations.
NewsDirectory	http://www.newsdirectory.com/
More than 8,000 online newspapers and magazines from around the world, in English. Also, links to Web sites of about 1,000 broadcast TV stations in the United States.
globalEDGE (international business)	http://globaledge.msu.edu/

Travel Site Collections:

These sites organize travel Web sites by subject: fares, travel guides, recreation, activities, city guides, camping, safety, warnings, trip planners, fares, currency exchange, lodging, much more.

Librarians’ Internet Index: Travel	http://lii.org/ (then click Regions of the World link)
American Library Assn. Index to Internet Resources for Travel	http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2002/april/travelweb.htm
Google’s Travel Page	http://directory.google.com/Top/Recreation/Travel
The Traveler's Web: An Extreme Searcher Guide to Travel Sources on the Internet (lists sites mentioned in Randolph Hock's book of that name)	http://extremesearcher.com/travel/index.html

Created Oct., 2007/JM; updated July 2008